UFC 300: Holly Holm on Ronda Rousey’s Comments, Concussions

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Reporter: Ronda Rousey has released this book, and she said she was concussed when she fought you, had many concussions before, she should be known as the greatest fighter ever, etc. What’s your reaction when you hear this? Do you feel like she’s trying to take away from your win all these years later?

Holly Holm: Everything I say, which I’m sure people will just take parts of what I’m about to say and make it sound how you guys want, I say this all out of respect. In order to have a big upset like that fight was, you have to have a dominant champion. Without her being so dominant, I couldn’t have been able to have such an upset.

But with that being said, I was the better fighter. I was the better fighter that night. Every fighter at this point, if you’ve made a career of fighting, you’ve had a concussion at some point. I’ll never sit here and use that as an excuse for any loss.

I think that it’s probably just hard for her to really want to maybe admit that I was just the better fighter. Was she so dominant and a good champion? 100%. I give her that. But she wasn’t better than me, and especially that night.

This transcript was generated from the video’s captions and has been lightly edited for clarity.